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London, Gb

London, Uk, Gb

Laka protects the things you love - without the fine print, without the tricks.At heart, we are building a tech company which protects the things you care about the most. Unlike traditional insurers, we are no longer incentivised to refrain from paying out claims to customers. Instead, we align our interests by taking a fee on settled claims and as such are encouraged to act in our customers’ best interest.The actual coverage is provided by a community of like minded people who are collectively rewarded for playing fair.Laka offers a cheaper, fairer and more transparent service, starting with cover for high value bicycles.

London, England, Gb

AGC offers receivables financing products in emerging and underserved markets. I was brought in to seed the software development team, taking on responsibility for growing the team, technology evaluation/selection, all aspects of architectural design and delivery of an innovative software platform.

Slough, Berkshire, Gb

Recruited into newly formed Next Generation Solutions team setup to deliver cloud based solutions and operate “as a start-up” in parallel with legacy development teamsDelivered initial prototype in 6 weeks, while recruiting additional developers through internal and external sources, with technical tests and interviewsDesigned highly innovative software architecture combining elements of “shared everything” and “shared nothing” to deliver high scalability, fast performance and fault tolerance throughout the software and hardware stackRecruited initial development team of 10 developers, and 2 testersLater expanded this team to 40+ developers, testers and product ownersLed technical due diligence on several major acquisitions Successfully integrated acquired teams and products, assuming architectural responsibility for all of IRIS’s cloud solutions (Compliance, Bookkeeping and Payroll)Responsible for sprint planning, team estimation and progress tracking

Abingdon, Oxon, Gb

Managed successful redevelopment of high-traffic Department for Education website from ColdFusion to .NET 3.5Successfully designed, documented and delivered highly advanced public facing Business Intelligence tool for Health and Safety Executive.Managed technical design and delivery of Data Warehousing and other major strategic data processing products/projectsLed the Architecture, Technologies and Technical Standards development group setup to research, evaluate and introduce new technologies and processes to the businessManaged the Business Intelligence development team, leading 5 specialist BI developersDesigned and Implemented company-wide coding standards, build and release processes Responsible for managing, motivating and allocating work for a multi-discipline team of 15+ staff in the UKManaged recruitment of new staff in the UK, including technical tests, interviews and onboardingInvolved with the outline planning and staff recruitment in off-shore development centreKey part of technical knowledge sharing initiative to integrate Data Solutions with rest of RM plc development divisionManaged the internal Microsoft Gold Partner strategy (gaining Business Intelligence competency

London, Gb

Responsible for managing, motivating and allocating work for a team of 40 developers in the UK and IndiaAppointed to serve as Principal Architect for both platform and application developmentVisited clients regarding both pre- and post-sales scenarios to reassure potential clients & rectify issuesManaged external software vendors and suppliers regarding integration and migration projectsPlayed a major role in the design and development of all application core components and SDK including Data Access Components, Email Tools, Workflow/Business Logic and Scheduling/Calendar ToolsManaged the set-up, configuration and maintenance of hardware infrastructuresSuccessfully resolved issues, liaising with customers and partners in a technical & non-technical contextVisited the outsourced development centre to provide technical training and discuss business requirementsSuccessfully steered expressHR's application through penetration and application security tests

London, Gb

Responsible for designing reusable and scalable software and defining expressHR's SDK email featuresEnabled highly customised email triggering and content management and a reduction on web server loadsImplemented a scalable and highly available Microsoft based infrastructure to support the platformUsed high availability SQL Servers, NLB Clustering and external/internal network data routing Contributed to the set-up and on-site training for an offshore development centre in MumbaiManaged the team of offshore developers in Mumbai as well as 6 UK based developersConducted appraisals, team motivation and training and scheduled and monitored resourcesRestructured the teams, with the UK developers leading groups of developers in MumbaiFacilitated a reduced dependency on the UK developers and transfer of knowledge to Mumbai

London, Gb

Responsible for designing and enhancing the GUI layer for the expressHR applicationInstigated a lasting change through the wider implementation of the code and design separation layer

Voyager SoftwareResponsible for the development and delivery of application maintenance (content management) systemExecuted full product redevelopment using the FuseBox development architecture to simplify system maintenance

Basingstoke, Hampshire, Gb